# 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 / Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)

- Law: 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 (Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities), 昭和三十五年法律第百二十三号
- English title "Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（一般事業主の雇用義務等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4251-46/art-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-4
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### 第四条（一般事業主の雇用義務等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures concerning General Employers' Duty to Employ Qualifying Disabled Persons, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4251-46/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  新法第四十三条第二項及び第五十四条第三項の規定の適用については、この法律の施行の日から起算して五年を経過する日までの間、これらの規定中「を基準として設定するものとし」とあるのは「に基づき」と、「当該割合の推移」とあるのは「対象障害者の雇用の状況その他の事情」とする。
<sup>suppl-4251-46/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/suppl-4251-46/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/suppl-4251-46/art-4/par-1</sup>
In applying Article 43, paragraph (2) and Article 54, paragraph (3) of the New Act, during the period until the date on which five years have elapsed from the date on which this Act comes into effect, the phrase "is to be set based on" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "based on", and the phrase "the changes in that percentage" is deemed to be replaced with "the employment situation of qualifying disabled persons and other circumstances".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4251-46/art-4/par-1: 新法第四十三条第二項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第四十三条第二項 (Article 43, paragraph (2)), art-43/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-43/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-43/par-2
- suppl-4251-46/art-4/par-1: 第五十四条第三項 → 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第五十四条第三項 (Article 54, paragraph (3)), art-54/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-54/par-3

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3845/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act-20261018T205639-010, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 209 — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18
